Computed tomographic imaging in connective tissue diseases

Seminars in Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine

Volumn 28, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 389-397

  Devaraj, Anand ^a   Wells, Athol U ^a   Hansell, David M ^a  

^a ROYAL BROMPTON HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Computed tomography; Connective tissue diseases; Imaging

Indexed keywords

IMMUNOSUPPRESSIVE AGENT; METHOTREXATE;

ACUTE LUPUS PNEUMONITIS; AUTOIMMUNE DISEASE; BACTERIAL PNEUMONIA; BRONCHIOLITIS OBLITERANS; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONNECTIVE TISSUE DISEASE; DERMATOMYOSITIS; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; DISEASE SEVERITY; HIGH RESOLUTION COMPUTER TOMOGRAPHY; HUMAN; INTERSTITIAL LUNG DISEASE; INTERSTITIAL PNEUMONIA; LUNG COMPLICATION; LUNG FIBROSIS; LUNG FUNCTION TEST; LYMPHOCYTIC INTERSTITIAL PNEUMONIA; MIXED CONNECTIVE TISSUE DISEASE; MULTIPLE ORGAN FAILURE; MYCOBACTERIOSIS; NONSPECIFIC INTERSTITIAL PNEUMONIA; OPPORTUNISTIC INFECTION; ORGANIZING PNEUMONIA; PATIENT MONITORING; PNEUMOCYSTIS PNEUMONIA; PNEUMONIA; POLYMYOSITIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; PULMONARY HYPERTENSION; REVIEW; RHEUMATOID ARTHRITIS; SJOEGREN SYNDROME; SYSTEMIC LUPUS ERYTHEMATOSUS; SYSTEMIC SCLEROSIS; DISEASE COURSE; HOSPITALIZATION; LUNG DISEASE; METHODOLOGY; PATHOLOGY; RADIOGRAPHY;

CONNECTIVE TISSUE DISEASES; DISEASE PROGRESSION; HUMANS; LUNG DISEASES; PROGNOSIS; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 35848946378     PISSN: 10693424     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1055/s-2007-985611     Document Type: Review

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